Leonardo will receive a contract worth $51 million to upgrade the Defensive Aids Sub System electronic countermeasuresand missile warning system on Britain's Typhoon fighter jets.

British Defense Secretary Sir Michael Fallon announced the contract at the Airpower Conference in London on Thursday. The upgrade program will run over a two-year period as part of Britain's efforts to modernize the fighter plane...

The first live firing of MBDA’s Brimstone air-to-surface missile from a Eurofighter Typhoon has been successfully completed as part of ongoing development work to significantly upgrade the capability of the aircraft. The trial is part of work to integrate the Phase 3 Enhancement (P3E) package for Typhoon, which will also deliver further sensor and mission system upgrades.

The P3E package forms part of Project Centurion – the programme to ensure a smooth transition of Tornado GR4 capabilities on to Typhoon for the Royal Air Force.

The UK’s IPA (Instrumented Production Aircraft) 6 Typhoon conducted the firing with support from the UK Ministry of Defence, MBDA, QinetiQ, Eurofighter GmbH and the Eurofighter Partner Companies – Airbus and Leonardo. It was designed to test the separation of the low-collateral, high-precision Brimstone weapon when it is released. In total, nine firings will take place to expand the launch and range capabilities...

Ther is strictly zero interest on brimstone from the French pilots now.

Over Mosul, the pilot says, Rafale crews have effectively deployed Sagem AASM Hammer bombs (SBU-54/38/64), which have reportedly proven highly reliable against moving targets. The AASM kitted CBEMS 250 is also expected to see greater usage, the pilots indicated.

“I dropped an SBU-38 recently about 90 feet from a mosque in Mosul. There was clean visual confirmation of a VBIED under preparation. It was a precision attack with no apparent collateral damage,” he says. The BLU-126/B of the US Navy is currently the major low collateral damage bomb in use, with France waiting for its own — trials currently on.

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All that the Brimstone allows, the AASM also allows, and often under better conditions.

Looooool, you quote an article, that shows that Rafale are primarily uses GBU12 and that French pilots wait for a new low collateral damage weapon. Wonder why you left those parts out?

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No I quote an article where a pilot says he drops an SBU 38 wich is an AASM kit and the result was "no apparent collateral damage" the explanation then comes: the kit was fitted on a BLU 126 which is a US bomb with a light explosive charge for low collateral dammage and it is also said that a French version of this bomb is on trial.